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In the end, man is only responsible for what he has planned or aimed for in life; the individual bears responsibility for his intent alone... What, after all, is action, but some kind of an arbitrary surprise? Man stands, and looks on in shock at what he is doing.

When renowned film director Péter Gárdos wrote the story, he intended it as a film script, but eventually he made it into a novel. “Fever at Dawn,” the love story of two Holocaust survivors―the author’s parents―has ever since sold in more than 20 territories.

According to Péter Nádas, Pályi is the mystic of the body. He writes about the body’s experience in the broadest sense, from the infernal depths to the ecstatic heights. - Published in English by Twisted Spoon Press.

"The society, it seems to me, invented the Kádár era long before Kádár
and company realized this. The tragic fact is that many people were
executed in order to intimidate the society when all the regime should
have done is to make a compromise." - We talked to György Spiró, the author of Spring Collection, about 1956 and the power games of the early Kádár era.

"Budapest is a nation that’s great and free. / Budapest has an area of roughly its own size, even larger if we include all the holes. / Budapest is the City of Cities, World of Insects, Planet of the Apes, etcetera."

Is there anything more exasperating than understanding that we all participate in the same dance of death? Perpetrators and victims, givers and receivers of prizes, Jews and non-Jews, anti-Semites and philo-Semites, irrespective of culture and skin colour.